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An Introduction to


August 20, 2014


Introduction to


A Discussion of Universal Competencies that are Fundamental to Quality

Geriatrics Care, Across Disciplines and Care Settings

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■ This is the first session of a two-part webinar series titled "Geriatrics-Competent Care.”

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Overview

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■ Gregg Warshaw, Moderator Martha Betty Semmons Professor of Geriatric Medicine

Professor of Family and Community Medicine

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

■ Kyle Allen Vice President for Clinical Integration

Medical Director, Geriatric Medicine and Lifelong Health

Riverside Health System

■ W. June Simmons President/CEO

Partners in Care Foundation

Introductions

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What’s Unique About Older Adult Care

Prevention

Risk of Care Transitions

Safe Medication Use for Older Adults

Understanding Geriatric Syndromes

Social Services and Supports in Geriatrics-Competent Care

Topics Covered

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Getting to Know Our Audience

Poll Question #1 – Which of the following best describes your professional area? ■ Healthcare Administration ■ Medicine/Nursing/Physician Assistant ■ Pharmacy ■ Social Work

■ Advocacy ■ Other

Poll Question #2 – What is your primary role? Administrator Clinician Educator Researcher Consumer Advocate Other

Poll Question #3 -- In what setting do you work? ■ Community Health Center / Federally

Qualified Health Center ■ Home Care ■ Long-term Care Facility ■ Managed Care Organization

■ Consumer Organization ■ Other

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What’s Unique About Older Adult Care?

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There is considerable diversity among older adults:

Physiological

Functional

Cultural

Individualized care, rather than protocol-based care, is especially important for older people.

Diversity Among Older Adults

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■ is not a disease

■ occurs at different rates

among individuals

within individuals

■ does not generally cause symptoms

Aging

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The Rule of Fourths

Of the “decline in

normal function” seen as people age…

Disease 1/4 is due to

Dis-use

Physiological aging

1/4 is due to

1/4 is due to

1/4 is due to

Misuse

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■ An 83-year-old woman comes to the office for an examination. She has recently returned to her home after a motor vehicle accident that resulted in injuries, a hospital stay complicated by pneumonia, and a nursing-home stay.

■ She is greatly changed since her last office visit: she has lost a lot of weight, moves slowly, and is unable to rise from her chair without using her arms.

■ She previously was an avid golfer and swimmer. She asks what she can do to improve her function now that her injuries have healed.

Case Study

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Case Study

Which of the following is effective in improving function in frail older adults?

A. Comprehensive geriatric assessment

B. Protein supplementation

C. Anabolic steroids (testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone)

D. Exercise

E. Home visits to evaluate function in the home function in the home

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■ Function, not diagnosis, is what counts, as multiple chronic diseases are common.

■ It is important to identify functional deficits that adversely affect the person’s prognosis and quality of life.

Function: The Critical Outcome

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Principles of Geriatric Assessment

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Goal: Promote wellness, independence Focus: Function, performance (gait, balance, transfers) Scope: Physical, cognitive, psychological, social domains Approach: Multidisciplinary Efficiency: Ability to perform rapid screens to identify target areas Success: Maintaining or improving quality of life


Working with the older adult and their family to determine, based on the patient’s goals of care:

The right amount of care (not too much, not too little)

In the right location (least intensive is usually best)

Care Planning

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■ In geriatric care, acting hastily is more likely to do harm than not acting at all.

■ Care decisions need to be paced so that the patient, the family, and the clinician have time to evaluate options before proceeding.

Slow Medicine

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Inter-professional team care is essential to providing optimal care for older adults.

Team Care

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Prevention

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■ Immunizations and screening tests that are recommended for older adults based on their remaining life expectancy and cognitive status.

■ Additional preventive activities and services that are potentially beneficial for older adults.

Prevention

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■ Frail older adults have limited physiologic reserve.

■ Illness caused by medical interventions is one of the most common yet preventable medical problems of older people.

■ The risk/benefit of diagnostic tests and treatments must be reviewed carefully in order to avoid iatrogenic illness.

Iatrogenic Illness

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■ Emphasize advantages: promotes mobility, rates of heart disease & osteoporosis

■ Recommend a program that balances exercise for:

Flexibility (e.g., stretching)

Endurance (e.g., walking, cycling)

Strength (e.g., weight training)

Balance (e.g., Tai Chi, dance)

Physical Activity


■ New Medicare benefit created by the Affordable Care Act

■ Designed to address: geriatric assessment

medication management

Injury prevention

Annual Wellness Exam


Risk of Care Transitions

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Transitions of care from one provider or setting to another can lead to:

misunderstandings of diagnoses and plans

medication discrepancies

confusion on the part of patients and families

Many older adults have limited physiologic reserves and at are at risk of bad outcomes during poorly handled transitions.

Care Transitions

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Emergency department visit

Inpatient hospitalization

Operating room Intensive care unit Ward

Skilled-nursing

facility

Home with or

without home-

health care

Nursing or

rehabilitation facility

Specialists Primary care provider

Common Care Transitions

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Safe Medication Use for Older Adults

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Effective drug treatments for chronic illnesses have expanded, and many older people have multiple chronic illnesses.

Adverse drug reactions and drug-drug/drug-disease interactions increase as the number of prescribed medications increases.

Adherence to complex, multiple drug regimens is difficult: poor vision, poor memory, limited funds, etc.

Medication Safety Challenges

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■ Safety and effectiveness of any given medication is not well studied in the aged.

■ Multiple concomitant medications adversely affect the safety and effectiveness of individual medications.

■ Multiple medical problems can adversely affect the outcomes of pharmacotherapy.

Gaps in Our Understanding of Medication

Use in Older Adults

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■ One clinician on the patient’s health care team must take responsibility for all the medications prescribed by all providers.

■ Regular review of all medications – prescribed and over-the-counter – with the goal of trying to reduce medication use as much as possible.

Major Considerations in Safe Medication

Use for Older Adults

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■ Consider non-pharmacological approaches first .

■ Start low, go slow. Evaluate thoroughly.

■ Caution with medications new to the market.

■ Annual medication reconciliation, including over-the-counter, vitamins, supplements, herbal or other remedies.

■ Keep possible medication side effects in mind at all times.

General Approaches to Medication Use

in Older Adults

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■ Is this medication necessary?

■ What are the therapeutic end points?

■ Do the benefits outweigh the risks?

■ Is it used to treat effects of another drug?

■ Could 1 drug be used to treat 2 conditions?

■ Could it interact with diseases, other drugs?

■ Does patient know what it’s for, how to take it, and what adverse side effects to look for?

Before Prescribing a New Drug,

Consider:

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■ Accumulation of multi-system deficits is responsible for the existence of geriatric syndromes.

■ Geriatric syndromes are typically multi-factorial.

■ Rare in younger people and common in older adults.


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■ More than 50% of older adults have 3 or more chronic diseases.

■ Multiple chronic illnesses are associated with increased rates of death, disability, adverse effects, institutionalization, use of healthcare resources, and impaired quality of life.

■ Older adults with multiple geriatric syndromes are heterogeneous in terms of illness severity, functional status, prognosis, personal priorities, and risk of adverse events.


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■ Falls

■ Gait and balance problems

■ Dizziness

■ Weakness

■ Frailty

■ Incontinence

■ Confusion

Most Significant Geriatric Syndromes

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■ Annual incidence of falls is close to 60% among those with history of falls.

■ Complications of falls are the leading cause of death from injury in people aged ≥65.

■ Most falls are not associated with syncope.

■ Falls literature usually excludes falls associated with loss of consciousness.

Falls: One of most common geriatric

syndromes

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Ask all older adults about falls in past year

Single fall: check for balance or gait disturbance

Recurrent falls or gait or balance disturbance:

Obtain relevant medical history, physical exam, cognitive and functional assessment

Determine multifactorial falls risk (see next slide)

Falls Assessment

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Factors Affecting Fall Risk

■ History of falls

■ Medications

■ Visual acuity

■ Gait, balance, and mobility

■ Muscle strength

■ Neurologic impairments

■ Heart rate and rhythm

■ Postural hypotension

■ Feet and footwear

■ Environmental hazards

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■ Most favorable results with health screening followed by targeted interventions

■ Aim to reduce intrinsic and environmental risk factors

■ Interdisciplinary approach to falls prevention is most efficacious

Falls Treatment

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Social Services and

Supports in

Geriatrics-Competent

Care

Bringing medicine,

families and

community-based services

together


■ The focus is on modifiable risk factors at home

■ Resources available – there are many community-based agencies serving elders

■ Social workers are “eyes and ears” to identify risks and unmet needs and facilitate access to:

Social services, public benefits and home care, food, transportation and caregiver support

Evidence-based programs for individuals and caregivers aimed at enhanced self-management

Social Services and Supports in


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Psychosocial and Environmental

Assessment

■ Functional assessment (ADL/IADL)

■ Fall risk – Medications, lighting, trip hazards

■ Screening for depression (PHQ 2/9) and cognitive impairment (Mini Mental Status)

■ Home safety/cleanliness/maintenance

■ Identification of barriers to compliance with treatment plan

■ Evidence of problems (e.g., alcohol bottles, odors, moldy food)

■ Social support & services – Both patient and formal/informal caregivers; abuse indicators

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Community Care

Coordination

Current MSSP Services Model: (can be adapted for Duals as CMS rules change)

Referred Services • AAA • IHSS • Community Based Adult

Services (formerly Adult Day Health Center)

• Regional Center • Independent Living Centers • Home Health • In-Home Palliative Care • Hospice • DME • Families / Caregivers Support

Programs • Senior Center Programs • Evidence-based Health

Impacting Self-Care programs • Long-term home-delivered

meals • Housing Options • Communication Services • Legal Services • HICAP • Ombudsman • Benefits Enrollment for services

(ie food stamps) • Money management • Transportation • Utilities • Volunteer services

Purchased Services (Credentialed Vendors) • Safety devices, e.g., grab bars, w/c

ramps, alarms • Home handyman • Emergency response systems • In-home psychotherapy • Emergency support (housing,

meals, care) • Assisted transportation • Home maker (personal care

/chore) and respite services • Replace furniture /appliances for safety/sanitary reasons • Heavy cleaning • Home-delivered meals – short

term • Medication management

(HomeMeds) • Special needs required to maintain

independence

Social Worker RN

Client &

Family

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Why Focus on Community Partnerships

for Social Services?

■ Improve health care for adults with chronic conditions through comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous expert and evidence-based services

■ Add in-home assessment/coordination of supportive social services to medical care

Enhance impact of medical care

Improve health outcomes

■ ACA and Duals plans provide opportunity for shared cost savings for LTSS

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Health Care + Social Services =

Better Health and Continued Independence

■ Identify/Address Social Determinants of Health:

Functional status, personal choices in everyday life

Isolation, family structure/issues, caregiver needs

Environment – home safety, neighborhood

Economics – affordability, access

■ Community Based Organizations have:

Time to probe, trust, different authority

Cultural/linguistic competence

Lower-cost staff & infrastructure

High-impact, evidence-based programs

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Expanding Supports for Aging Well

■ There is an expanding deployment of social workers to identify challenges and threats to aging well at home for complex patients.

■ Evidence-based community programs have been established for patient activation to address lifestyle change – especially to manage risks like diabetes progressing, heart disease and falls.

■ Pro-active care is emerging – focus on the whole person.

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Targeted Patient Population Management

with Increasing Disease/Disability

Late

Life

Complex Chronic Illnesses w/ major

impairment

Chronic Condition(s) with Mild Functional &/or

Cognitive Impairment

Chronic Condition with Mild Symptoms

Well – No Chronic Conditions or Diagnosis without Symptoms

Hot Spotters!

Evidence-Based Self-Management, Home

Assessment and HomeMeds

Home Palliative Care

Post-Acute and Long-Term Supports and Services

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Targeting for Social Services:

Focus on Concentration of Risk

■ Functional limitation

■ Dementia

■ Frailty

■ Serious illness(es)

■ Hospital/Emergency room use

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Home and Community-Based Services

are High-Value

■ Improves quality

Staying home is concordant with people’s goals

■ Reduces spending

Based on 25 state reports, costs of home and community-based LTC services less than 1/3rd the cost of nursing home care

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Services Targeted to Individual Needs

Evidence-based Self-Management

Independent w/ chronic condition

HomeMeds,

Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management

(Diabetes, Pain, Spanish versions)

Short-term In-Home Services

At risk for deterioration & high utilization

Care transition coaching

Risk screening

Psychosocial evaluation

Service coordination

Long-term Services & Supports

Frail/disabled

Service coordination,

Purchase of services (meals, respite,

transport, chores)

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Some Evidence-Based

Programs

SELF-MANAGEMENT

■ Chronic Disease Self-Management

■ Tomando Control de su Salud

■ Chronic Pain Self-Management

■ Diabetes Self-Management Program

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

■ Enhanced Fitness & Enhanced Wellness

■ Healthy Moves

■ Arthritis Foundation Walk With Ease Program

MEDICATION MANAGEMENT

■ HomeMeds

FALL RISK REDUCTION

■ Stepping On

■ Tai Chi Moving for Better Balance

■ Matter of Balance

DEPRESSION MANAGEMENT

■ Healthy Ideas

■ PEARLS

CAREGIVER PROGRAMS

■ Powerful Tools for Caregivers

■ Savvy Caregiver

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Home Assessment Improves

Medication Safety

■ Home visit by nurse or social worker Collect comprehensive medication information

Assess for possible adverse effects & discrepancies

Screen through software to find potential problems

■ Pharmacist review & resolve problems, educate

■ Supporting resources are valuable to assure effective use of meds gathered in home visits

■ Emerging Models: Targeted home visits for high-risk patients

Add to care transitions, self-management programs

caregiver support, etc.

Part of comprehensive fall prevention initiative

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Post-Acute Social Work Home Coaching

■ Compared to patients who met referral criteria but did not receive the home visit 12.8% lower rate of ED use

22% lower rate of readmissions

■ Medication Issues Identified and Recommendations Made by PharmD: 63%

■ Other issues identified (e.g., PHQ-9, caregiver or financial need): 54%

■ Falls risks identified – 77%

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■ Apply Principles of Geriatrics-Competent Care

■ Form Partnerships of Health Care Providers, Home and Community-Based Providers, Consumers and Advocates

To Achieve the Triple Aim: Better Care,

Better Health, Lower Cost

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Questions

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